Computer Science Jobs in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 69 47
Rank change year-on-year +20 -22 +14
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 3,369 2,668 4,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.71% 4.52% 5.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.64% 4.73% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,232 1,375 1,605
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,784 56,422 67,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.60% 95.60% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 41,279 29,104 41,046
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +9 1,029 £60,000 +4.35% 253
North of England +75 650 £48,000 -12.73% 201
Scotland +7 591 £52,500 -4.55% 56
Midlands +19 390 £50,000 -4.76% 159
North West +58 364 £50,000 -16.67% 113
South West +20 359 £50,000 -15.53% 107
West Midlands +33 267 £51,431 -6.49% 90
East of England +2 254 £46,000 -8.00% 127
Yorkshire +86 226 £45,000 -14.29% 58
East Midlands -10 117 £42,500 -15.00% 69
North East +3 60 £48,734 +14.67% 32
Northern Ireland +17 44 £40,000 -13.04% 20
Wales -52 39 £34,000 -40.87% 28
Isle of Man - 13 £37,000 - 4
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 63 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.34%) FileNet
3 32 (0.95%) Apache Spark
3 32 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (0.62%) Confluence
5 17 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
5 17 (0.50%) IIS
6 16 (0.47%) WordPress
7 15 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 15 (0.45%) SAS
8 12 (0.36%) Apache
8 12 (0.36%) CMS
9 11 (0.33%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.18%) nginx
11 5 (0.15%) Moodle
12 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
13 3 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (0.089%) Luigi
13 3 (0.089%) WildFly
14 2 (0.059%) Appian
Applications
1 96 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (1.63%) Simulink
4 32 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.42%) Trello
6 8 (0.24%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.089%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.059%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.059%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.059%) TargetLink
9 1 (0.030%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.030%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.030%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.030%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.030%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.030%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.030%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.030%) Revit
9 1 (0.030%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 33 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 15 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.27%) SAP CX
4 9 (0.27%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.24%) Shopify
6 5 (0.15%) Odoo
7 4 (0.12%) CA PPM
7 4 (0.12%) Magento
7 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
8 3 (0.089%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.089%) Sage 300 ERP
8 3 (0.089%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.059%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.059%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.030%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.030%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 540 (16.03%) AWS
2 479 (14.22%) Azure
3 145 (4.30%) Power Platform
4 122 (3.62%) GCP
5 118 (3.50%) GitHub
6 116 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
7 109 (3.24%) Amazon S3
8 98 (2.91%) SaaS
9 80 (2.37%) Serverless
10 73 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
11 69 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
12 61 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
13 47 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (0.89%) Amazon Kinesis
15 24 (0.71%) Power Automate
16 22 (0.65%) PowerApps
16 22 (0.65%) Snowflake
17 20 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
18 19 (0.56%) IaaS
18 19 (0.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 131 (3.89%) Network Security
2 128 (3.80%) Firewall
3 83 (2.46%) TCP/IP
4 81 (2.40%) Wireless
5 75 (2.23%) WAN
6 70 (2.08%) VPN
7 68 (2.02%) DNS
8 59 (1.75%) HTTP
9 51 (1.51%) LAN
10 43 (1.28%) Internet
11 35 (1.04%) DHCP
11 35 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
12 34 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
13 28 (0.83%) SD-WAN
14 27 (0.80%) VLAN
15 26 (0.77%) Ethernet
16 21 (0.62%) 5G
16 21 (0.62%) MQTT
17 20 (0.59%) RS-232
18 19 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (7.54%) SQL Server
2 248 (7.36%) NoSQL
3 140 (4.16%) Power BI
4 127 (3.77%) MySQL
5 121 (3.59%) Relational Database
6 113 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
7 95 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
8 68 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
9 65 (1.93%) Redis
10 59 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
11 56 (1.66%) Big Data
12 46 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
13 44 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 38 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 35 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
16 33 (0.98%) Tableau
17 29 (0.86%) RDBMS
18 26 (0.77%) DynamoDB
19 25 (0.74%) MS Access
20 24 (0.71%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 361 (10.72%) Git
2 106 (3.15%) JIRA
3 102 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.72%) JUnit
5 51 (1.51%) Selenium
5 51 (1.51%) Visual Studio
6 49 (1.45%) Mockito
7 47 (1.40%) Jasmine
8 43 (1.28%) Cypress.io
9 41 (1.22%) Subversion
10 34 (1.01%) GitLab
11 26 (0.77%) CMake
11 26 (0.77%) LabVIEW
12 23 (0.68%) Postman
13 19 (0.56%) Bitbucket
14 18 (0.53%) Appium
15 17 (0.50%) NUnit
15 17 (0.50%) TeamCity
16 16 (0.47%) Vagrant
17 14 (0.42%) Moq
General
1 1,204 (35.74%) Social Skills
2 660 (19.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 647 (19.20%) Finance
4 516 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
5 414 (12.29%) Law
6 347 (10.30%) Marketing
7 220 (6.53%) Manufacturing
8 214 (6.35%) Electronics
9 161 (4.78%) Financial Institution
10 142 (4.21%) Legal
11 110 (3.27%) Banking
12 105 (3.12%) Games
13 88 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
14 82 (2.43%) Retail
14 82 (2.43%) Telecoms
15 70 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
16 67 (1.99%) Investment Banking
17 64 (1.90%) Automotive
17 64 (1.90%) Public Sector
18 60 (1.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 759 (22.53%) Developer
2 607 (18.02%) Software Engineer
3 554 (16.44%) Senior
4 259 (7.69%) Lead
5 245 (7.27%) Software Developer
6 178 (5.28%) Engineering Manager
7 165 (4.90%) Software Engineering Manager
8 161 (4.78%) Senior Developer
9 157 (4.66%) Analyst
10 156 (4.63%) Senior Software Engineer
11 154 (4.57%) Data Scientist
12 153 (4.54%) Architect
13 146 (4.33%) Junior
14 137 (4.07%) Graduate
15 94 (2.79%) Java Engineer
16 92 (2.73%) Java Software Engineer
17 84 (2.49%) Embedded Engineer
17 84 (2.49%) Full Stack Developer
18 77 (2.29%) .NET Developer
19 71 (2.11%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 425 (12.62%) .NET
2 385 (11.43%) React
3 297 (8.82%) AngularJS
4 296 (8.79%) HTML
5 242 (7.18%) CSS
6 183 (5.43%) Spring
7 167 (4.96%) Node.js
8 154 (4.57%) RESTful
9 134 (3.98%) Kafka
10 126 (3.74%) .NET Core
11 123 (3.65%) HTML5
12 108 (3.21%) REST
13 85 (2.52%) .NET Framework
13 85 (2.52%) ASP.NET
14 83 (2.46%) JSON
14 83 (2.46%) Spring Boot
15 79 (2.34%) NumPy
16 78 (2.32%) Web Services
17 74 (2.20%) GraphQL
17 74 (2.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 413 (12.26%) Algorithms
2 347 (10.30%) Cloud Native
3 294 (8.73%) Management Information System
4 173 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
5 118 (3.50%) Data Structures
6 94 (2.79%) Product Ownership
7 86 (2.55%) Onboarding
8 74 (2.20%) Data Centre
9 71 (2.11%) Mobile App
10 66 (1.96%) Market Risk
11 61 (1.81%) Client/Server
12 59 (1.75%) IoT
13 52 (1.54%) Distributed Applications
13 52 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
14 47 (1.40%) FPGA
15 42 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
15 42 (1.25%) Public Cloud
16 39 (1.16%) CUDA
16 39 (1.16%) Driving Licence
17 38 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 407 (12.08%) Linux
2 367 (10.89%) Windows
3 71 (2.11%) Android
4 70 (2.08%) Unix
5 67 (1.99%) Windows Server
6 48 (1.42%) Mac OS
7 43 (1.28%) Apple iOS
8 34 (1.01%) Embedded Linux
9 33 (0.98%) Windows 10
10 32 (0.95%) Ubuntu
11 24 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 21 (0.62%) CentOS
13 12 (0.36%) Debian
13 12 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
14 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (0.24%) VMS
16 6 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
17 5 (0.15%) Kali Linux
18 4 (0.12%) SUSE
18 4 (0.12%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,280 (37.99%) Problem-Solving
2 1,201 (35.65%) Software Engineering
3 1,048 (31.11%) Agile
4 803 (23.83%) Mathematics
5 499 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
6 466 (13.83%) SDLC
7 430 (12.76%) Decision-Making
8 418 (12.41%) CI/CD
9 401 (11.90%) Mentoring
10 396 (11.75%) Machine Learning
11 357 (10.60%) DevOps
12 356 (10.57%) Cybersecurity
13 341 (10.12%) Analytics
14 313 (9.29%) Coaching
15 296 (8.79%) Project Management
16 278 (8.25%) Data Analysis
17 262 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
18 261 (7.75%) Data Science
19 243 (7.21%) Microservices
20 239 (7.09%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 738 (21.91%) Python
2 702 (20.84%) SQL
3 615 (18.25%) C#
4 576 (17.10%) JavaScript
5 524 (15.55%) Java
6 344 (10.21%) C
7 336 (9.97%) C++
8 275 (8.16%) TypeScript
9 114 (3.38%) PHP
10 80 (2.37%) Bash
11 79 (2.34%) Fortran
12 78 (2.32%) Embedded C
13 77 (2.29%) PowerShell
14 53 (1.57%) R
15 51 (1.51%) Go
16 47 (1.40%) T-SQL
17 45 (1.34%) MATLAB
18 38 (1.13%) Kotlin
18 38 (1.13%) Rust
19 37 (1.10%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,809 (83.38%) Degree
2 1,484 (44.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 372 (11.04%) Master's Degree
4 242 (7.18%) Security Cleared
5 165 (4.90%) PhD
6 129 (3.83%) SC Cleared
7 83 (2.46%) CISSP
8 79 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 77 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
10 61 (1.81%) AWS Certification
11 55 (1.63%) CCNA
12 54 (1.60%) CCNP
13 51 (1.51%) PMI Certification
14 48 (1.42%) Azure Certification
15 47 (1.40%) PMP
16 42 (1.25%) CISM
17 40 (1.19%) DV Cleared
18 39 (1.16%) A+ Certification
19 36 (1.07%) DBS Check
20 35 (1.04%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (5.52%) QA
2 66 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (1.72%) GDPR
4 56 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 55 (1.63%) Data Quality
6 45 (1.34%) NIST
7 42 (1.25%) PMO
8 31 (0.92%) WCAG
9 22 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (0.62%) ISO 13485
11 17 (0.50%) SLA
12 16 (0.47%) HIPAA
13 11 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 11 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.30%) GRC
14 10 (0.30%) NCSC
15 9 (0.27%) JTAG
16 8 (0.24%) CDISC
System Software
1 301 (8.93%) Docker
2 139 (4.13%) Firmware
3 103 (3.06%) Active Directory
4 60 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 45 (1.34%) Embedded Firmware
6 25 (0.74%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.27%) vSphere
9 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.18%) KVM
10 6 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.12%) pfSense
12 3 (0.089%) XenApp
13 2 (0.059%) HDFS
14 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.030%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 306 (9.08%) Kubernetes
2 113 (3.35%) Terraform
3 48 (1.42%) Ansible
4 19 (0.56%) Puppet
5 15 (0.45%) Grafana
6 13 (0.39%) ZABBIX
7 12 (0.36%) SCCM
8 9 (0.27%) Nagios
8 9 (0.27%) WSUS
9 8 (0.24%) Nessus
9 8 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.21%) SCOM
11 6 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.18%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.15%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.15%) Rancher
12 5 (0.15%) Suricata
13 4 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.089%) Autotask
Vendors
1 416 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 122 (3.62%) Oracle
3 120 (3.56%) Google
4 75 (2.23%) Cisco
5 70 (2.08%) SAP
5 70 (2.08%) VMware
6 51 (1.51%) Salesforce
7 44 (1.31%) Xilinx
8 25 (0.74%) Juniper
9 22 (0.65%) Splunk
10 20 (0.59%) Databricks
11 19 (0.56%) Apple
11 19 (0.56%) IBM
11 19 (0.56%) ServiceNow
11 19 (0.56%) Xamarin
12 16 (0.47%) F5
13 15 (0.45%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.42%) Fortinet
15 13 (0.39%) NVIDIA
16 12 (0.36%) Veeam